Sky has announced it will launch Sky Sports+ this August, a service it says will be “transformational in the amount of choice sports fans will have access to via live streams, the mobile app and a dedicated new channel, all at no extra cost”. With more coverage from the English Football League (EFL), both tennis […]
RTL Group has reported that group revenue was up 2.6 per cent YoY to €1.31 billion, mainly driven by higher TV advertising revenue and streaming revenue at RTL Deutschland, partly offset by lower Fremantle revenue. Group revenue was up 4.1 per cent organically. RTL Group’s total advertising revenue increased by 10.1 per cent YoY to […]
Ofcom, the UK media regulator, has published a package of proposed measures that social media and other online services must take to improve children’s safety when they’re online. Ofcom has explained some of the main measures and the difference it expects them to make and has set out proposed steps online services would need to take […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS), the media measurement and optimisation platform, has released its 19th edition of its Media Quality Report (MQR). The annual report analyses over 280 billion digital interactions daily from across the globe to provide both advertisers and publishers with benchmarks to measure the quality of their digital advertising campaigns and inventory. The […]
Global spending on telecom services and pa-y TV Services reached $1,509 billion (€1,404.3bn) in 2023, an increase of 2.1 per cent over 2022, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects worldwide spending on telecom and pay-TV services will increase by 1.4 per cent in 2024 and reach a total […]
DoubleVerify (DV), a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, has announced the discovery of ‘FM Scam’, the latest audio fraud scheme to date that was identified and mitigated by DV’s Fraud Lab using a proprietary combination of AI-powered technology and human review. FM Scam represents the second significant global scheme targeting audio […]
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has announced the appointments of Caroline Cardozo as Director of Product, and James Lelyveld as Director of Software Engineering. Cardozo joins Arqiva from Disguise, where she served as VP of Product. Prior to this, she was Director of Group Product, Discovery & AI at Sky where she […]
When we are talking about the elite world of horse racing, only one race comes to mind – the Kentucky Derby. Even a few days after the event we are still under the impression of the impressive race that drew thousands of spectators to witness the two-minute action. Since the Kentucky Derby is a race […]
Baby Reindeer, the true story of creator Richard Gadd’s experience with a stalker, was the most-watched title on Netflix in the week beginning April 29th, spending its third consecutive week atop the English TV List, with 18.6 million views. Also having a big week was Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar (India), the period drama from BAFTA […]
Magnolia Pictures, the independent theatrical and home entertainment distributors in the US, has announced a new partnership with Samsung and its dedicated service Samsung TV Plus, for access to Magnolia Pictures’ film catalogue through select streaming offerings. Samsung TV Plus users will have access to a specially curated assortment of ad-supported titles to stream that […]
Scalstrm, a provider of next-generation streaming and media processing solutions, and EZDRM, a specialist in digital rights management (DRM) and content protection services, have announce their strategic partnership aimed at expanding the envelope of video content security for broadcasters, OTT providers, and other streaming video platforms. Scalstrm’s video streaming technology and EZDRM’s DRM as a […]
Last week Germany expressed in no uncertain terms its unhappiness over the EU-backed IRIS² Low Earth Orbiting system which would give Europe’s governments a secure, encrypted satellite fleet and an alternate to Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband system. (IRIS² Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). The German government strongly opposes IRIS² due to its […]
The Paramount logo is a mountain with a coronet of stars. Its sale still has a mountain to climb and the final outcome – pre-deal or post – is likely to be the current contenders, and others, picking and choosing between those star divisions of the business. When the movie (low budget straight to streaming) […]